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> being able to write a letter to an organization that still insists on written letters for things Maybe I'm especially attuned to this due to my personal bias
by crabmusket 3y ago
> being able to write a letter to an organization that still insists on written letters for things
Maybe I'm especially attuned to this due to my personal biases, but I see a lot of cases where AI is the "solution" to a problem that shouldn't exist.
A real nuisance from my dayjob involves using AI to parse information out of PDF datasheets. If manufacturers would provide machine-readable datasheets, we could simply write code. But no, they for some reason only provide awfully-formatted PDFs at best, forcing the burden onto everyone aside from themselves, the people who have the data already.
It's wonderful that we can make AI do this tedious and difficult data entry work now. But the problem should not exist in the first place.
- simonw 3y agoYeah, absolutely. I expect we'll increasingly notice that LLMs are being applied as stop-gap solutions to problems that would ideally be solved some other way.